Sentence examples for Hydra from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A mythological serpent with seven heads, slain by Hercules as one of his twelve labours. Also called the Lernaean Hydra.
"They were like a hydra, two heads," says Winter who has had some experience as part of a double act himself.
"This hack looks like a multi-headed hydra and we may only be in the early days of it," explains Marc Goodman, a cybercrime expert.
Moderates in the People's Party hope that while Mr Rajoy continues to slash at the many-headed hydra of ETA he will also bring a change of tone.
A hydra in the desert Oil shock, lamb shock Vying for stardom Barnes-storming in Georgia Third-party dreams Where the jailbirds are The left's last gasp ReprintsTake Bill Clinton's recent decision to curb lamb imports from Australia and New Zealand.
And it must be tempting to turn the knife by trying to take those arguments to pieces.But the result is an unwieldy hydra of a book that, having made its point early on, lashes out in all directions to no clear purpose.
The news media have produced a hydra of talking heads who are forever yelling at each other (debate) or pontificating about who is up and who is down (analysis).
Meanwhile, the Taliban has evolved into a hydra-headed monster in the region.
In East Asia, the equivalent figure was 20%.Related items A survey of al-Qaeda: A hydra-headed monsterJul 17th 2008 Afghanistan: Pointing a finger at IslamabadJul 10th 2008 Asia.view: Building blocksFeb 27th 2008A vast potential is untapped.
Naoto Kan, the prime minister, entered a crisis of hydra-headed complexity with feeble popularity and little public respect.
FOR the last week Kenneth Cukier, a Tokyo-based correspondent for The Economist, has been visiting disaster zones in north-eastern Japan to contribute to the paper's coverage of the "hydra-headed disaster".
Northern Nigeria is home to a hydra-headed group calling itself Boko Haram ("Western education is sacrilegious") which has killed more than a thousand people, and now operates across half the country.
